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Staff asks council to table demolition for two homes, move forward on third after no owner response
Summary
City staff told the Mobile City Council that two properties with pending demolition orders have active permit applications and should be tabled, while a third property at 3616 Kent Road has had no follow-up and staff requested declaration as a public nuisance and demolition proceed.
City staff asked the Mobile City Council to indefinitely table demolition proceedings for two properties because permit applications are pending and to move forward with a declaration of public nuisance for a third property that has seen no owner follow-up.
David, a city staff member, told the council that the owner of 2202 Stevens Court "has applied for a permit and we'd like to table this permanently to give him chance to complete that process and repair his house." He said the same for 612 Bazell Avenue: the owner "has applied for a permit application and they're working with Build Mobile now to have that permit to repair their house. We'd like to table that permanently."
By contrast, David said of 3616 Kent Road that staff "held this over 60 days ago so the owner could sell the property. I've had no follow-up with the owner, no repairs and no permit applications. I do request we move forward with declaration for this structure at 3616 Kent."
During the discussion Vice President (council member) asked staff to contact the Stevens Court owner; he said he had been corresponding with the owner and asked staff to call him and notify him of the meeting outcome. David added the owner "is out of town, but if he expects to move into Mobile, into our region to fix the property ... I'll let him know what the outcome is today. He may even be watching by online right now."
These items appeared on the council's public hearing list as holdovers tied to orders declaring structures public nuisances and assessing demolition costs. Staff framed the requests as administrative: two properties have active permit activity in Build Mobile and staff recommended permanently tabling the demolition declarations to allow repairs; the third has had no permit activity or owner contact and staff recommended proceeding with the nuisance declaration and related action. The transcript does not record a formal roll-call vote on these specific requests.
Next steps described on the record were for staff to notify owners and for the case at 3616 Kent Road to move forward toward formal declaration and demolition procedures pending council action at a future meeting.
